Bart JC Devolder

Bart J. C. Devolder is a Belgian painting restorer. He received his M.A. in painting conservation in 2002 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium with the Master`s thesis The Technology of Tuchleinpainting. He held internships at the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych Kraków, Poland, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels and at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. He received a fellowship from the Straus Center for Conservation at the Harvard University Art Museums (2003-2004) and he was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Painting Conservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (2004-2007). He worked as a painting conservator at the Kimbell Art Museum & Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas prior to joining the conservation team of the KIK-IRPA for the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece.
Bart is currently involved with the restoration of The Ghent Altarpieceat the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent. The project began in October 2012 and is projected to last five years. Only the panels being worked on are in the museum at any one time, with the others remaining on display in the cathedral. At the museum the public can see the work in progress from behind a glass screen. The last previous major restoration was conducted in 1950-51.
Bart Devolder is the author of several articles. One is on the painting techniques of Picasso and Braque's Cubist years, co-authored with Claire Barry.

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